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How can you attract the hard-to-reach groups, and how do you make this pay?
HCM issue 3 2016
Canadian software company Geosports is developing an app to try and increase
participation in sport in an age in which the developer believes people are less
involved in sports and physical activity.
news •
18 Feb 2014
Get Active London, a new online database of sports clubs, venues and activities
spanning the entire capital, has been developed in a bid to help increase
participation in regular exercise.
news •
22 Nov 2011
Business In Sport and Leisure (BISL), the umbrella organisation for the sport, leisure and hospitality industry, is calling for more government funding for leisure-related Private Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes.
news •
09 Oct 2007
The Irish government has ring-fenced an initial €5.5m (£4.2m, US$6m) for 2016 in a bid
to get 500,000 more people involved with regular physical activity over the next 10 years.
news •
15 Jan 2016
Sheffield International Venues (SIV) has invested £35,000 into providing specialist fitness equipment for people with disabilities at Concord Sports Centre in Sheffield.
news •
04 Sep 2008
Move's new partner network across the three cities
includes hundreds of independent operators, as well
as chains such as Virgin Active and Pure Gym.
product innovation •
03 May 2016
Scottish sports minister Shona Robison has helped mark the start of work on a new £31.5m swimming pool being developed in Dundee.
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01 Feb 2011
A £5.8m renovation of Aylesbury's Aqua Vale Swimming and Fitness Centre has moved a step closer after councillors deferred and delegated final approval for the scheme.
news •
03 Feb 2011
Sector Skills Council SkillsActive has unveiled a new guide designed to get more people in England into higher education.
news •
30 Nov 2005
The Welsh Assembly Government is looking to encourage people in Wales to become more active as part of new measures to tackle rising obesity levels and to improve health.
news •
08 May 2009
Sporting groups in East Cambridgeshire have received £28,500 of funding from Sport England this week.
news •
02 May 2008
Sport England has called for "everyone in sport" to do more to increase participation by people with learning difficulties after announcing that it would be investing £200,000 at this year's Special Olympics GB Summer Games.
news •
26 May 2009
Virgin Active has become the official health club of the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA). As part of a three
year agreement, Virgin Active will introduce a number of LTA tennis products to its members - including
Cardio Tennis, a group fitness class.
news •
18 Mar 2013
The Get Oxfordshire Active (GO Active) project has been launched as part of an effort to increase participation in physical activity in the county.
news •
23 Jan 2009
Sport England says it's introducing "new and innovative" ways to increase participation – by
doing a better job of listening to local communities and networks to understand their needs.
news •
07 Dec 2021
Winners of the 2009 FLAME Awards have been announced at the Fitness Industry Association's (FIA) annual summit and conference in Bolton this week.
news •
18 Jun 2009
The results of a survey detailing public participation in cultural, leisure and sporting activities between 2006-7 have been released by the DCMS.
news •
28 Aug 2008
Former sports minister Richard Caborn has claimed that plans to increase sports participation in the UK as part of legacy plans for London 2012 are in danger of "failing completely".
news •
21 Sep 2011
Wyre Borough Council (WBC) is due to consider proposals to invest £7.4m in improving the borough's
leisure centres.
news •
07 Sep 2012
Sport England and the Fitness Industry Association (FIA) have announced the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to help increase sporting participation.
news •
01 Jul 2011
Plymouth's new £46.5m Life Centre, which has been created to provide a regional
centre of sporting excellence, has been officially opened by the local authority
today (22 March).
news •
22 Mar 2012
A new £6.44m leisure centre, which is currently being built at Forest Fields, Nottingham, has received a £1m grant from Sport England's Free Swimming Capital Modernisation Development Programme (SCMP).
news •
16 Apr 2009
Operator Freedom Leisure has made a double appointment as it bids to strengthen its
management team, welcoming Mike Worsnop as business development manager and
Alyson Zell as aquatic business manager.
news •
27 Feb 2015
A campaign to get Wigan residents fitter is underway with the launch of the first health club at Hindley Leisure Centre.
news •
01 Feb 2005
Stoke Mandeville stadium in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, which is owned by WheelPower – the British Wheelchair Sport – and managed by Leisure Connection, has launched a new Inclusive Fitness Initiative gym.
news •
06 Jul 2005
Elevate will be an important opportunity for
professionals to learn more about exercise, health
and performance.
product innovation •
15 Mar 2016
London mayor Boris Johnson has pledged to invest £15.5m in grassroots sports as part of a bid to improve health and well-being in the capital.
news •
30 Jan 2009
On 1 July, £400,000 of new health and fitness facilities will officially open to the public at the Stoke on Trent and North Staffordshire YMCA.
news •
28 Jun 2006
A “state-of-the-art” sports centre which benefitted from £2m (US$2.9m, €2.7m) of Sport
England money has been opened to increase the participation of people in Chesterfield.
news •
11 Jan 2016
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